X-Nico

4 unusual facts about Pye Ltd.


Brian H. Brown

After graduation he worked as a Development Engineer with Pye Ltd. in Cambridge and subsequently as a

Disques Vogue

A new sister label was established in Britain as part of the Pye Group.

Pye Ltd.

In the early 1970s Sony and Hitachi launched UK colour televisions that cost less than £200.

In 1924, Harold Pye, the son of the founder, and Edward Appleton, his former tutor at St John's College, Cambridge, designed a new series of receivers which proved even more saleable.


Vintage amateur radio

There is considerable interest in vintage military and commercial radio equipment among EU amateur radio operators, especially gear from British manufacturers such as Marconi, Racal, Eddystone, Pye, and a variety of Russian, German, Canadian, British RAF and British Army equipment, such as the well known Wireless Set No. 19.


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